jajeanpierre
Chameleon Enthusiast
I'm trying to set up one room for my chameleons, and it has been a learning process.
I will have chameleons on two walls facing each other. Cages are separated by about 10 feet.
How will I know if that proximity is causing problems? What do I look for?
How do others solve this problem?
I am thinking I should set up some kind of visual screen. Suggestions?
I just moved the cages around yesterday, and only one might be reacting to seeing chameleons across the room. She just laid a clutch a week ago. Her cage has not moved or changed in any way. All that is different is she might see a couple of males across the room. Yesterday, she was an excited blotchy color. I've put a complete visual block in front of her cage until I get a handle on what her colors are saying. Nobody else seems to be reacting at all, but I fear they are reacting inside and these poor animals do not need any more stress.
The chameleons are all recently imported wild caught quads with a variety of health problems/parasite loads. I don't really know what normal, happy, unstressed looks like for this group. I'm very new to chameleons as well, which doesn't help.
I would appreciate any insight into my housing problems.
I will have chameleons on two walls facing each other. Cages are separated by about 10 feet.
How will I know if that proximity is causing problems? What do I look for?
How do others solve this problem?
I am thinking I should set up some kind of visual screen. Suggestions?
I just moved the cages around yesterday, and only one might be reacting to seeing chameleons across the room. She just laid a clutch a week ago. Her cage has not moved or changed in any way. All that is different is she might see a couple of males across the room. Yesterday, she was an excited blotchy color. I've put a complete visual block in front of her cage until I get a handle on what her colors are saying. Nobody else seems to be reacting at all, but I fear they are reacting inside and these poor animals do not need any more stress.
The chameleons are all recently imported wild caught quads with a variety of health problems/parasite loads. I don't really know what normal, happy, unstressed looks like for this group. I'm very new to chameleons as well, which doesn't help.
I would appreciate any insight into my housing problems.
